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I love that AI negativity on HN is so strong that we reclassify whatever work AI can do into “busy work” as soon as it is possible.

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That’s not my point. I’m not disparaging AI. I described AI as modern tooling that is beneficial to learn. I’m sure there are many professional developers saving time using AI to generate code they would have otherwise written. My point is that in this specific case, AI didn’t enable anything useful. I would have said exactly the same if the OP had written the code without AI. If a problem is long solved, reinventing it is busy work. Busy work can be fun, I reinvent things all the time, but that doesn’t change the nature of it. If the project they had built had been something novel (that does not exist) then it would have not been busy work.

I was shit talking education if anything :)

So your definition of busy work isn’t “work AI can do”. It’s “work that accomplishes things that have already been accomplished before”.

The latter is even sillier. Your position might be indefensible.

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